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The SolarWinds Orion Installer is an all-in-one application for installations and upgrades. You use one installer to install or upgrade multiple Orion Platform products and install or upgrade Additional Polling Engines, Additional Web Servers, and High Availability Servers.

After the download is completed, run the installer to begin installation.

The Orion Installer will help you through the Virtualization Manager installation. For step-by-step instructions for preparing and executing your installation, you can follow the Orion Installer Guide.

You don't need to install the VMAN appliance

Before version 8.0, Virtualization Manager was packaged as a virtual appliance, which needed to be installed and maintained separately from an Orion Platform installation. To benefit from newer features like Recommendations, users could follow a separate process to integrate the VMAN appliance with an Orion Platform installation.

In versions 8.0 and later, Virtualization Manager is a full Orion Platform product out of the box, already including the most up-to-date features like Recommendations and Capacity Planning. So for new installations, you don't need to download or install the VMAN appliance.